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THE BEST BOOKS OF 2011
SELECTED BY
Gerry Badger
Todd Hido
Raymond Meeks
Adam Bell
Darius Himes
Kevin Messina
Susan Burnstine
John Jenkins
Aron Morel
Marco Delogu
Anne Kelly
Martin Parr
Antone Dolezal
Anouk Kruithof
Cliff Shapiro
Sven Ehmann
Kevin Kunishi
Alec Soth
Horacio Fernández
Shane Lavalette
Gordon Stettinius
John Gossage
Larissa Leclair
Elisabeth Tonnard
Lauren Henkin
Melanie McWhorter

Adam Bell

Photographer / Writer

Redheaded Peckerwood.
CHRISTIAN PATTERSON

Blood streaked and gritty, Patterson's book deconstructs a decades old crime and creates a beautiful and smart puzzle about crime, desire, hopelessness and the American landscape.
The Auckland Project.
ALEC SOTH & JOHN GOSSAGE

Two books in one by two great photographers and bookmakers. What more could you ask for?
Oculus.
KEN SCHLES

A poignant meditation on images and memory, Schles' book is as evocative as it is beautiful.
Photographs.
PENELOPE UMBRICO

An artist's monograph brilliantly reimagined as an artist book.
Abendsonne.
MISHA DE RIDDER

Containing a mere eight images, De Ridder's sumptuous book perfectly encapsulates the ephemeral beauty of nature.
Towards a Warm Math.
LUCAS BLALOCK

A book of strange photographs that pulls back the digital curtain and teases apart the possibilities of the image in the 21st century.
A.
GREGORY HALPERN

Filled with beauty and a keen eye for poetic details, A is a sobering journey through the back roads of America's forgotten cities.
A New Map of Italy.
GUIDO GUIDI

A long overdue US book by a contemporary Italian master.
Redwood Saw.
RICHARD ROTHMAN

Rothman's first monograph documents a dying timber town and offers an affecting portrait of America struggling in the face of depletion and worn-down dreams.
One to Nothing.
IRINA ROZOVSKY

Rozovsky's Isreal is a land of modern ruins and ancient mysteries that never offers solutions, only questions and riddles.
Adam Bell is a photographer and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. He received his MFA from the School of Visual Arts, and his work has been exhibited and published internationally. He is the co-editor and co-author, with Charles H. Traub and Steve Heller, of The Education of a Photographer (Allworth Press, 2006). His writing has appeared in Foam Magazine, Afterimage, Lay Flat and Ahorn Magazine. He is currently on staff and faculty at the School of Visual Arts' MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department. His website and blog are adambbell.com and adambellphoto.blogspot.com.
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